Posted on 06/21/2021 2:25:22 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
HARRISBURG, Pa. – On Monday the Senate approved a bill to fund the demolition of blighted and abandoned properties.
Senator David G. Argall (R-Schuylkill/Berks), the sponsor of Senate Bill 439 says it has strong, bipartisan support and was passed by a vote of 48-2.
“This bill gives counties dedicated funding for the demolition of blighted, decaying, rat-infested buildings,” said Argall. “Breathing new life into our older towns, large and small, will help bring more jobs here and encourage more of our young people to stay in their hometowns to raise their family and build their career.”
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“... decaying, rat-infested buildings...”
Demolishing the Pa Democratic headquarters????
Ping.
Demolition of blight is reasonable use of funds. Very often these folks abandon and go bankrupt in property they cannot sell.
If they could collect money from them, they would. But when blight comes in, its also a fire hazard among other property problems.
Better to just tear the things down asap. Because squatters will go in and crime rates would rise otherwise.
Anything like the “Urban Renewal” of the `960s?
Real rats will just relocate.....making all those neighborhoods very unhappy.
I recommend JUST ONE BITE as a good rat poison.
`960s?=1960s.
Make it feasible to sell the properties. As is, buyers are subject to back taxes, toxic waste cleanup, onerous zoning restrictions, etc. Handle “blight” by getting red tape out of the way.
How is demolishing “blighted, decaying, rat-infested and abandoned properties” going to “encourage young people to stay in their hometowns and raise their families”?
When I was growing up, I recognized two types of peers — those with the old pioneer spirit who hit the road for new economic opportunity and those who stayed in their decaying, crumbling hometowns because that was all they knew and they were scared to leave. I don’t recall any “revitalization” programs doing anything worthwhile.
Why not have the property transferred to the town before demolition or have the cost of the demolition a lien against the property to be repaid when the property is sold or developed?
Say “goodbye” to Shamokin and Coal Township.
The cities with the blight are responsible to manage the properties. Not farmers in some other county.
Bingo. Sell them to ANY taker without limits on use:
-training for bombing and strafing runs,
-training for fire departments
-training for fire insurance investigators
-research and development for demolition equipment manufacturers
-training for demolition equipment operators
-movie and television sets
So they are going to knock down Philadelphia?
Why burn down a building to get rid of rats?
If the building needs to be demolished because it can't be made structurally safe at a reasonable cost - that's one thing.
But why bring the rats into it unless it is an emotional attempt to get the taxpayers to spring for xxx billion dollars.
Sounds like somebody wants to give somebody some new stuff.
Did they define ‘blighted’ appropriately?
Did they specify removal of conditions which caused the blight to stay, like legal obligations or liens?
Did they specify these things in ways that neither make the local governments predatory, nor allow these things to be gamed to get around proper debts?
Because rats don’t stay put. If you have a rat infested building, the critters go visit the entire neighborhood.
Problem is, building is gone, rats move somewhere else.
You just changed my mind about not supporting this bill. If the buildings are full DemocRats when they are demolished, it is well worth the price.
Think about having a lien value attached to a property? No one will buy it. If there are too many properties in a blighted city like that, values plummet, and a turn around is just digging a city into a deeper hole.
There are plenty of examples for cities where blight keeps growing and doesn’t diminish, because people don’t want to buy those places.
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